Hi
I am looking to add a few transitions and other effects to my captured home videos. I have captured these to SVCD via a Dazzle DVCII and encoding with TMPGEnc.
Now I have looked at Vegas Video and Adobe Premiere and was wondering which of these two is better.
Will they encode as good as TMPGEnc or will I still be required to encode with TMPGEnc before adding any effects.

Thanks

Flash

If you want to add transitions or do any editing then you shouldn"t Capture to Mpeg format...Mpeg Format is not meant to be edited and editing it can cause Problems with the Mpeg file itself..You Should Capture to AVI then edit in say "Premier" then use the Video server to Frame serve the file to Tmpgenc or any an other encoder to Encode to mpeg...The Built in Mpeg encoders for Vegas Video and Premier aren"t very good, the one in Vegas Video is better But it is Much slower and you need to register the Mpeg encoder before it works..and there are a lot of Mpeg plugins for Premier But the best is probably CCE but either way you will loose a LOT of Quality if you try to edit the mpeg file Cuz you will have to re-encode it if you add any effects or edit with these programs...Premier is a Fairly good AVI Capture program But Vegas Video Only captures Uncompressed AVI File when useing an analog source and only encodes to DV with a DV Source.Virtual Dub is a Much better Capture program though...

Thanks for the info
I have been playing wih Premiere but only got 26 days left.
Vegas Video I have full install with mpeg plugin.
I think for now I will leave the fancy bits out until I learn some more.
Thanks

Flash

Hi !!

I try to encode an avi-file and there is an error - Failed to create device context.What does that mean??

THX

How can I split an mpeg into 2 parts? Thanks

By editing it...."File" to "Mpeg Tools" to "Merge & Cut"...

i need help,
see i try to open my avi file and an error messege tells me that "the file can not open or unsupported"
but it's an- avi file so whats the proublem?!

Go to "Options" To "Enviromental Settings" Then To "Vfapi Plugins" and Raise the "Direct Show Multimedia File Reader" to "2"...

I have the same problem - change the value to 2 for direct show but the problem persists

i did what u told me 2 do (and thanx 4 that)
but it still doesnt work,
the same error message

Hi I am using the merge/cut option but it only shows the "time" sequence of where to cut a movie, is there a way to set it to show actual frames, since I am trying to get all the frames that pertain to a particular sequence ??? thanks..

Not That I know of ...Tmpgenc doesn"t support frame accurate editing..But you Can use the "Source range" to do frame accurate encodeing...But I don"t know how good it is...

Im new to the process of creating VCDs. Please help me with the following problme:

I used DVD2AVI to extract the audio as a .wav file. This plays perfectly. Then I used TMPGEnc to create the MPEG file. The MPEG works-the video plays, but there is no audio. I tried it twice and it does not work. Any suggestions?

Encode the D2V file from DVD2AVI like normal and take the Wav audio file and encode it to Mpeg audio with something elce like "Headac3he" or "Db Power Amp" the use the Mpeg Tools to Multiplex the audio to the video and soo if that works...And try useing DVD Playing software as Opposed to media player cuz Media Player can in some cases with certain Codec combinations plays Mpeg files without the audio or it cutting in or out...Try Power DVD it"s a good one...

It shows a freeze frame at the beginning but only render the audio. Help!

Well if Tmpgenc won"t accept it then you probably don"t have the correct Mpeg2 decoder installed...If you install Nemo codec pack or Power dvd then you should have the proper Mpeg2 decoder installed ..If you still can"t get it loaded then try useing DVD2AVI to make a D2V project file and then encode that.....

Or it could be the fact that it is a I frame file...

Hi
Maybe it is stupid question but I am still new on this.
I am trying to convert AVI to MPEG with TEMPGEnc I am not getting any error but for some reason the Audio cuts off in certain point during the movie and it does not come back again till the end.
The AVI file seems to run fine. I have not made any modification or editing the AVI file. It is all strait forward.

Any ideas? Please help

KindDude

>Hi
>Maybe it is stupid question but I am still new on this.
>I am trying to convert AVI to MPEG with TEMPGEnc I am not getting any error but for some reason the Audio cuts off in certain point during the movie and it does not come back again till the end.
>The AVI file seems to run fine. I have not made any modification or editing the AVI file. It is all strait forward.
I created the AVI file with Ulead.
I downloaded Virtual Dub but unfortunately it cannot read the AVI file the error is "Could not locate decompresor (DVSD)unknown. VirtualDub requires a video for Windows (VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. DirectShow codecs, such as those used by Windows Media Players, are not suitable"
>
>Any ideas? Please help
>
>KindDude

Virtual Dub Runs on the same decodeing engine as Tmpgenc and media player..So if you can load it into Virtual Dub then you either don"t have the proper codec installed, there is a Major error in the Source file or the file isn"t an avi file...Find out what codec the avi? file was encoded with then look for that codec and download it and see if that helps...

Thanks
But the thing is that I capured the AVI file with Ulead 3.0 software and ran it through TMPGEnc I got no error's but the problem is that when U run the MPEG result the Audio cut off in the middle. It happen twice with different capures and different length.
How can I know which Codec was used?

Did you capture it with an analog capture card??Cuz I think that Ulead will only capture to Uncompressed avi when useing a Analog card and with a DV capture the the format would be DV...Tmpgenc only supports one type of DV But I don"t know if it is Type 1 or 2...If you want to check the codec then right click on the file and Go to "Properties"...If it is Just a Problem with the audio cutting out in the encoded Mpeg file then try something like "Sound Forge" to Extraxt the audio then use it to encode the audio to Mpeg or use something elce like Headac3he or even DB Power amp to encode the wav file to Mpeg audio...

Hi,

you must select under Audio-->Tracks the right Tracknumber.

>>Hi
>>Maybe it is stupid question but I am still new on this.
>>I am trying to convert AVI to MPEG with TEMPGEnc I am not getting any error but for some reason the Audio cuts off in certain point during the movie and it does not come back again till the end.
>>The AVI file seems to run fine. I have not made any modification or editing the AVI file. It is all strait forward.
>I created the AVI file with Ulead.
>I downloaded Virtual Dub but unfortunately it cannot read the AVI file the error is "Could not locate decompresor (DVSD)unknown. VirtualDub requires a video for Windows (VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. DirectShow codecs, such as those used by Windows Media Players, are not suitable"
>>
>>Any ideas? Please help
>>
>>KindDude

Audio sync problem after remuxing. Here's what I'm doing:

Use IfoEdit to strip steams and create new ifo's of the main movie vob's to another folder.

DVD2AVI the new vobs to get a .d2v file for Tmpegenc (I've tried using the .d2v file directly into Tmpgenc and frame serving it as well).

In Tmpgenc I use the DVD wizard and all I change is the bitrate and the quality setting.

Then I use the .m2v file when remuxing useing IfoEdit again to rip the steams and create new ifo's of the main movie vob's to yet another folder.

My audio is out of sync by about 2 seconds.

Any help on what I'm doing wrong.

If it is out that much for the whole movie then you can fix it by useing Mpeg2Vcr to re-mux the file..It has a Function that allows you to Set the audio skew to fix sync problems...

I want to add permanent subs into SVCD so I used VirtualDub frameserving into TMPG but I cannot load as a video source .vdr file (as guide in VCDHELP says). Any help?
Thanx
Lubo

Well Make sure that the VDR file works properly..Open up another instance of Virtual dub and see if you can load in the VDR file..If you can then try Dis-ableing the Direct show File reader in the Vfapi Plugins, sometimes this works...

Make sure you double click the Proxyon.reg file in the Virtual Dub plugins folder BEFORE you try to import the file with TMPGEnc.

I could not get the preview screen to open in tmpgenc so I was told to try to open it up in virtual dub so I down loaded it went to file clicked on open video opened the video then I went to save as avi clicked on that another window popped up and said you are about to save a uncompressed avi file it may be very large if this is not a temp.avi file consider using video compression to save space the video must be set to full processing mode in order to work. And it is so i clicked yes continue and my imput and out put screen popped up and they were black also.I've downloaded every codec that has been suggested to me such as nimo code pack v5.0 build 8 and up my direct show in vfapi under enviro settings in tmpgenc and now I get avi can not open or unsupported please help me

Can you play the File???When you load the File into Virtual Dub there is a Little slider right under the screen..Move that and you will scan through the movie, if you don"t see a picture and you have the right Codec then there is Probably something wrong with the AVI file...But if scanning the File produces a Picture then Frame serve the file and don"t save it as an avi , especially Uncompressed Unless you have 150gb of spare space on a very big drive ..To frame serve you double click the "Auxsetup.exe" file in the V-Dub folder then choose "Install handler" then in Virtual dub you just go to "File" to "Start Frameserver" then name the file and give it a .VDR extention the load it into Tmpgenc but leave the frame server running.You problem happens quite often with downloaded files...90% of the problems that are posted are with files that are downloaded..Get a DVD Rom and Rip DVD if you want problem free VCD/SVCD/DVD"s.......

I down loaded a movie off the web and have been trying to fix it .When I Try to Multiplex it gets about 3/4 then I get an illegal audio error box.

Thanx for the detailed explanation...So from what I can discern from your post is that you downloaded a Mpeg file from the net??And it doesn"t work for some Reason? Is the audio the problem you are haveing with it...Can you play the audio But just cant Mux it?Try re-encodeing the audio then use that as the audio in your mpeg file,,or you can uncompress it to Wav/Pcm and encode it to mpeg audio then mux it...

The movie was broken and wouldn't play. I'm new to mpgs and am trying to learn how to fix the problems as I come across them.Vcdhelp said to try fixing using tmpg.... so I tryed multiplexing when I ran into that error.The file it created does open and played but froze up when it was advanced.
Can you tell me what to use and how to re-encode the audio ?

If the video froze then fixing the audio won"t help...Try VCDGear...It is supposed to Fix broken Mpeg files...Mpeg files aren"t really meant to be repaired though but it might work if it isn"t that bad...But if you want to try encodeing the audio you just use the "De-Multiplex" to seperate the audio from the video then load the audio into the audio spot in Tmpgenc then click Start...